My multidisciplinary practice explores how we care for the landscapes we inhabit, drawing on ideas of commoning, our shared land and resources, through food systems, growing, and resistance to power. This inquiry unfolds through painting, monoprinting, drawing, and community workshops.

Monoprinting is a form of tending akin to gardening. I blend ink onto the plate with a roller to create a flat ground. Then, using white spirit, I disrupt the surface, letting the ink bleed and move freely to evoke organic, landscape-like forms. Like a garden, the print becomes a site where control yields to collaboration with material forces. Each print is a negotiation between imposition and emergence. The process mirrors the rhythms of cultivation and wilding: planting marks, watching them spread, wiping away, pulling back, like clearing weeds to let something else grow. There’s a decision to be made where nature is left to take its own course. This reflects broader questions in my practice around land, commoning, and enclosure, where care, resistance, and surrender, co-exist.

I see making as both an individual and communal ritual. This spring, I returned to work with the Langport and Huish Youth Group to create seasonal, food-themed flags. The focus asks, “What’s in season?” and “Are all tomatoes red?” echoing the slow, shared rhythms of gardening and connecting us back to place.
More recently, words and poetry have crept into my practice as quiet responses to the land, where language becomes another form of attention.